so ever since my computer crashed right at the end of my sophomore year of college, i've been reluctant to keep stuff on this computer. it feels like it could crash again at any time (in fact, it WILL crash again, in exactly the same manner, the clock is ticking. the same symptoms that led up to my first HD wiping out are showing up again, but i'm too lazy to do anything about it), so i am unable to store stuff on here with the comfort that it will be there whenever i need it. that's why i kept all of my email on the .imap server - until i deleted that by accident, too.

it's not that bad, really. if it was, i could just go out and get a new HD, or figure out what in my system is destroying my hard drive each time, and do something about it. oh well.

i think the main thing i'm annoyed about losing are all of my roms. i must have had around 300 SNES roms and 200 NES roms on my hard drive when it ate it. that wouldn't be so bad, either, except nintendo's a punk and all rom hosting sites aren't allowed to host them or else they'll get sued for copyright infringement. now that's not so bad either. except they won't let sites host japanese games that never came out in the us. how am i supposed to play them? it's not like i would have bought an imported japanese super famicom and imported games if not for the rom. it's not hurting their goddamn sales at all. sons of bitches... i know final fantasy 3 and 5 were released with those PS chronicle or anthology or whatever packs, but seriously...

i don't want to do the whole message board begging for someone to email it to me... or going on irc and begging for them.

who's heard of these games?

never came out in US:
seiken densetsu 3 (secret of mana 2)
tales of phantasia (predecessor tales of destiny on PS)
star ocean (predecessor to star ocean 2 on PS)
bahamut lagoon
the 7th saga 2 (no one's working on a translation for this anyways)

this is a fuck. is there any chance someone reading this would have the roms? i highly doubt it... austin, lawrence, do you do this kind of thing?